I wasn't gonna go, but if there was a lollapalooza not to miss in the past nine or ten years this was the one. looked like they finally got back to having some real cool bands this year, but alas, the whole tour is cancelled, apparently due to lack of ticket sales. does make you wonder why such a good lineup isn't drawing the crowds. hell, i almost got tickets just to catch elbow (the band, not the texags poster).

Ummm, the lineup was the first problem, and making it two days was the second. I am a little surprised that they outright cancelled it, but any idiot could have seen that they would not do well with that lineup.

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are you serious? a majority of those bands were at last year's ACL Festival, and that did quite well. robert earl didn't pull in all those people himself and most of the people i know didn't even stick around for REM, not that i agree with missing out on them, but it says something for the pulling ability of the others in the lineup. they put on a good show and those bands are first class. the tickets hadn't even gone on sale for the texas dates as far as i know.

This bums me out. I was really looking forward to this year's lineup.

Robert Earl is a bar and dance hall act, so he is not a huge draw either. But there were quite a few other bands at ACL besides the few Lollapalooza crossovers, REK, and the circa 1980's has-beens REM. And you were dealing with one show in one city, not an entire tour.

I don't have to argue the point, just look at the news. Poor ticket sales = cancelled tour. There is not one band on that list that can draw 15-20K+ anywhere, much less at every stop on a multiple city tour. It was just a bad idea and a bad business decision.

They did not sell out many of the Lollapalooza shows last year and they had 4 bands who had records on the charts and Jane's Addiction to top it off.

ACL isn't the perfect measure to what will stand up around the country.

I liked some of the line-up. Would have been good to see, but overall, it wasn't a great line up like it SHOULD have been for a festival.

Great is not defined as # of popular bands...but quality of up and coming bands.

Let's face it. Unless you are 30 years old, on average, you don't appreciate Morrissey or Sonic Youth. PJ Harvey wasn't even playing on all the tour. Add to that the PIXIES, my favorite band. Neither will Basement Jaxx, Wilco, etc...

PF has gotten away from what made the festival great to begin with. Great up and coming bands packed into one great day.

Take a look at 1991 line up:
Jane's Addiction
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Living Color
Nine Inch Nails
Fishbone+ (Aug 22, Dallas, Aug 28, Seattle)
Violent Femmes+ (Aug 23 Dallas, Aug 25 Denver, Aug 28, Seattle)
Ice-T/Body Count
Butthole Surfers
Rollins Band

Every one of those bands kicked ass for years.

Lollapalooza 1992

Main Stage:
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Ministry
Ice Cube
Soundgarden
The Jesus And Mary Chain
Pearl Jam
Lush
Temple Of The Dog (9-13-1992)

Second Stage:
Jim Rose Circus and Sideshow
Sharkbait
Archie Bell
Porno For Pyros
Basehead
Cypress Hill
Sweaty Nipples
Arson Garden
Seaweed
Seam
Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E.
The Look People (Toronto)
Stone Temple Pilots
Vulgar Boatmen
Truly
Skrew (Dallas, Houston)
Tribe (8/7-8, Great Woods)
The Authority (Great Woods)
Samba Hell (Irvine, CA)
Rage Against The Machine (9/11-12 - first two Los Angeles dates)
Chris Cornell and Eddie Vedder (8/29, Alpine Valley, CA)


Jump to 96:
Lollapalooza 1996

Mainstage:
Metallica
Soundgarden
Cocteau Twins
Waylon Jennings
Cheap Trick
Violent Femmes
The Tea Party
Wu Tang Clan
Rage Against The Machine
Steve Earle
Devo
Ramones
Rancid
Shaolin Monks/Kung Fu Of China
Screaming Trees
Psychotica

Second Stage:
Beth Hart Band
Girls Against Boys
Ben Folds Five
Ruby
Cornershop
You Am I
Soul Coughing
Sponge
The Melvins
Satchel
Jonny Polonsky
Fireside

Indie Stage:
Chune
Moonshake
Lutefisk
Capsize 7
Shaolin Monks
Cows
Long Fin Killie
Thirty Ought Six
Varnaline
Crumb



Even with Metallica headlining...they still have good second stage.

Lollapalooza 1997

Main Stage:
Orbital (June 18 - July 15 )
Devo (July 16-19, July 25-27)
The Prodigy (July 20-23, July 29-Aug 10)
The Orb (August 12-17, but not August 8)
Tool (75 min)
Snoop Doggy Dogg (50 min)
Tricky (60 min)
KoRn (60 min)
James (50 min)
Julian and Damian Marley and the Uprising Band (50 min)
eels (45 min)
Failure

Second Stage:
First Half (June 25-July 20)

eels
Summercamp
Artificial Joy Club - playing 4-5pm
Jeremy Toback
Radish (June 25-July 9)
Old 97's (July 11-20)
Inch
Porno For Pyros - only for some dates (6/25, 7/11 NYC, and 7/25 Chicago)
Second Half (July 22-August 18)

The end of an era.








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are you serious? a majority of those bands were at last year's ACL Festival, and that did quite well. robert earl didn't pull in all those people himself and most of the people i know didn't even stick around for REM, not that i agree with missing out on them, but it says something for the pulling ability of the others in the lineup. they put on a good show and those bands are first class. the tickets hadn't even gone on sale for the texas dates as far as i know.

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I agree with BigAg and I am serious.

When I first saw the lineup, I asked myself if it was 10 years ago. AND If they wanted two days, then the organizers should have put together a better lineup.

Most people yawned at this year's festival.

First of all, last year's lineup was great.

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Let's face it. Unless you are 30 years old, on average, you don't appreciate Morrissey or Sonic Youth.

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I am 31, and those 2 bands are not good.

Morrissey is not a band.

He is way better than that guy Pink Floyd, though.

it doesnt matter if its a band or a guy...the suckage doesnt change

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Morrissey is not a band.

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Sorry, was thinking of "The Smiths" I guess.

I think that one reason why Lollapalooza didn't fare as well was because The Cure is doing its own festival, with bands that Lollapalooza's target audience wanted to see more, including Interpol, The Rapture, Muse, Mogwai, Cursive, and several others.

I suspect that if they would have taken The Cure's tour and called it Lollapalooza 2004, I'm pretty sure the tour wouldn't have been cancelled. There's probably only room for one indie mega-tour per summer, and it it didn't help that the two tours were scheduled to hit the same places about a week apart.